“experimentation meets canyon rock enormity”
“The Killers dazzle with a flash-bang on the soaring and triumphant Imploding The Mirage”
“A gigantic and jubilant vision fixated on a hope worth celebrating and sprinting toward”
“Led by the exquisite brio of Brandon Flowers, the Las Vegas band returns with one of their biggest and best albums, a marvelously absurd collection of synth-rock gems and arena anthems.”
“About two thirds of the way through Lizzy Goodman’s history of 2000s US alt-rock, Meet Me in the Bathroom, the Killers turn up. The sense that the book’s other protagonists think they’re a little non-U is hard to miss. They are not, by the standards of the time, cool: gawky and awkward in person, unapologetically ambitious and commercial, not interested in the kind of hedonism that derails half th”
“Imploding the Mirage has some decent tunes buried beneath its headache-inducing mastering and recurrent lack of identity.”
